Load balancing Scality

Scality ARTESCA

Scality ARTESCA is simple and secure S3 object storage software that seamlessly integrates with Veeam for immutable, ransomware-proof backups. It’s the only S3 object storage software designed to provide the strongest form of data immutability, plus 5 levels of end-to-end cyber resilience, providing unbreakable data protection for workloads such as Veeam.

For scale-out data services with stateless S3 API endpoints, Scality recommends using a three-node deployment as standard, which utilizes floating IPs for failover to provide high availability.

Why Loadbalancer.org for Scality 

There are many different load balancers on the market, with different features, levels of support, and associated costs. 

So why do Scality recommend us?

Partnerships – We have a proven track record with Scality, HPE and their partner network

Experience – We have 20+ years’ experience optimizing complex object storage environments

Intuitive WebUI – With our easy to use interface means you can deploy faster and manage your load balancer more easily

High availability – Our Enterprise ADC provides S3 connector failover, storage server failover, advanced health checks, and multi-site failover

Performance – Our load balancer can balance data load, and offers Direct Server Return, as well SSL offloading

Scability – We offer a number of different load balancer scaling and performance options for increased throughput, as well as a Site License that allows you to spin up as many load balancers as you like, at no extra cost

Integrated GSLB – With our appliance GSLB comes as standard, straight out of the box, at no extra cost

Validation – Our solution and step-by-step deployment guide comes pre-validated by Scality

Tierless Support – Consultative, same-day, tireless support comes as standard 

No End-of-Life – Loadbalancer.org does not End-of-Life its virtual appliances, putting customers back in control of their product lifecycle

Key benefits of load balancing Scality

Scality RING

Enterprises that use the AWS S3 protocol for cloud-native access to on-premises archive data from Scality RING, achieve more consistent, balanced performance when using a load balanced workflow.

On Scality RING, our load balancer enables:

• A highly available storage endpoint, that distributes clients across backend nodes, taking nodes that fail health checks out of service: This minimizes downtime, improves resilience, and simplifies maintenance. 
• SSL passthrough (for unencrypted object operations): This ensures data protection for public connections.
• Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) for multi-site deployments: This improves resilience, optimizes network performance and ensures high availability for distributed environments.
• Exporting logs and performance analytics: Prometheus integration to provide more in-depth logging. 

Scality RING architecture supports High Availability (HA) clustering by putting a load balancer in front of it. Load balancers monitor and perform health checks on a node to ensure traffic is routed correctly to healthy nodes. Without the use of a load balancer, an off-line or failed node would still receive traffic, causing failures. 

Scality ARTESCA

Artesca is built with simplicity in mind, with built-in failover of floating IPs when configured in a three node cluster. However there is no in-built load balancing, so traffic is not always evenly distributed, and in high request or failover scenarios this can be a big problem.

A floating IP address is a highly available IP address that sits on the load balancer and is only present on the active appliance. In a clustered pair, all floating IP addresses will “float” across and be added to the other appliance during a failover:

Loadbalancer provides additional control in traffic distribution, a tight integration with Scality (including integrated Prometheus reporting in Scality Dashboard), and visibility of node performance in operational and DR scenarios.

How to load balance Scality 

Scality RING

A variety of load balancing methods are currently supported by Scality RING, depending on use case requirements, including Layer 4, Layer 7, and GSLB. 

The RING service that should be load balanced is the S3 component.

Full, step-by-step instructions on how to do this can be found in this deployment guide: Load balancing Scality RING.

For advice on scaling Scality RING deployments for increased throughput refer to technical guide: Load balancing options for scalable high-performance computing, storage, and AI workloads.

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